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Text:I Bind My Heart
Author:Lauchlan McLean Watt, 1853-1931
Tune:[I bind my heart this tide]
Composer:Suzanne Toolan, SM, b. 1927

668. I Bind My Heart

1 I bind my heart this tide
To the Galilean's side,
To the wounds of Calvary,
To the Christ who died for me.

2 I bind my soul this day
To the brother far away,
To the sister near at hand
In this town and in this land.

3 I bind my heart in thrall
Tjo the God, the Lord of all,
To the God, the poor one's friend,
And the Christ whom he did send.

4 I bind myself to peace,
To make strife and envy cease;
O God, knit thou sure the cord
Of thralldom to my Lord.

Text Information
First Line: I bind my heart this tide
Title: I Bind My Heart
Author: Lauchlan McLean Watt, 1853-1931
Language: English
Publication Date: 1994
Source: "Thraldom," The Tryst, 1907
Tune Information
Name: [I bind my heart this tide]
Composer: Suzanne Toolan, SM, b. 1927
Key: C Major
Copyright: © 1979, Resource Publications, Inc.



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